All Passive articles
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White papersA World in Flux: Managing Evolving Risks in Equity Markets
Risk management is being put to the test in 2025. How can equity portfolio teams cope with multiple hazards across equity markets this year?
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White papersNavigating fixed income in 2025: Key trends and insights
Fixed income presents a complex yet promising outlook for institutional investors. Martin Wiethüchter and Sandro Müller, Fixed Income Investment Specialist Group at UBS Asset Management, examine key developments and trends likely to shape the market in 2025 and beyond.
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White papersFinding Growth in US Stocks Beyond the Technology Sector
Technology stocks have been the poster child for growth in recent years. Other sectors deserve a closer look today.
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White papersA short guide to index selection: A multi-step process requiring both quantitative and qualitative inputs.
The indexing industry has changed and evolved significantly since the first indexed equity portfolio was launched in 1971. More than USD 24 trillion is now invested on a passive basis globally – tracking a wide range of benchmarks across different asset classes in a variety of investment vehicles.
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White papersESG goals, risk and returns – A new framework to optimise equity portfolios
A new paper from BNP Paribas Asset Management, “Impact of ESG Objectives on a Portfolio”, recently published in The Journal of Portfolio Management, details a framework for adding environmental, social, and governance objectives to passively and actively managed equity portfolios so that the impact of the ESG criteria on risk and return is minimised.
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White papersSmall Caps: What You Don’t Know But Should
Small cap stocks span a wide range of characteristics and performance drivers that we believe index funds are not built to exploit.
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White papersSmall Caps: To Index or Not to Index
More investors are taking a passive approach to small caps. Should they?
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White papersBuilding a Better Benchmark for Leveraged Loan Indexing
It is now possible for investors to invest in leveraged loans via an indexed, or passive approach, but advanced trading and portfolio construction techniques are key for low-cost, credible beta exposure. Read more in our insights.
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White papersOptimizing a Global Credit Portfolio
By using a “building block” approach, investors may be able to improve diversification, boost risk-adjusted returns and reduce implementation costs. Our white paper outlines the potential benefits of a modular approach to optimize your fixed income portfolio.
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White papersThe Pitfalls of Investing In Factor Indices
Factor indices are a far cry from “passive” investing and may be ill-designed to deliver optimal risk-adjusted returns.
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White papers2024 Proxy Season Preview
No right versus wrong assessment can be applied to proxy voting. Assessing how proxy voting supports the overall investment process is what is most important. Rather than seeking to influence vote outcomes, the market should focus on influencing how investors use the proxy vote in the context of the investment objectives it seeks to achieve on behalf of clients.
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White papersThe Challenge of Active Engagement in a World of Passive Ownership
In an exclusive interview with the Global Investment Institute, Jonathan Bailey Managing Director and Global Head of ESG & Impact Investing shares the areas of focus driving his team’s research agenda and addresses his thoughts on the implications of the upcoming US Presidential election on the Inflation Reduction Act, the role for active engagement and how to measure companies’ true progress towards reducing real world emissions.
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White papersThe Muddy Logic of Passive Commodity Investing
Passive investing in commodities is a bit of an oxymoron.
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White papersDowns and Ups: Managing Equity Volatility Goes Both Ways
Defensive equity strategies that limit downside losses but lag too much in up-markets may be missing the mark. Is there another way to reduce volatility?
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White papersBond Portfolio Optimisation and Mixed Integer Programming
While portfolio optimisation is commonplace in equities, it is more complex in the fixed-income space, partly because of trading lot sizes. Implementing the portfolio composition by converting weights into holdings is easy for equities due to small lot sizes.
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White papersThe Limitations of Passive Investing to Achieve a Net-Zero Outcome
In our second installment of The Fine Print of Indexation, we tackle the challenge of building net-zero-aligned portfolios.
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White papersThe Fine Print of Indexation
A look at opportunity costs, long-term risks and complementary solutions.
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White papersSystematic Fixed-Income Investing Comes of Age
Bond investors have been challenged by heightened volatility and big drawdowns in the aftermath of the pandemic. In response, investors are increasingly seeking systematic strategies, which can generate active returns while mitigating risk and charging competitive fees. In this paper, we explore the principles, processes and benefits of a systematic fixed-income strategy, an investment approach whose time has come.
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White papersReimagining Growth: A Market Beyond Mega-Caps
US growth stocks were hit hard in last year’s downturn, with the mega-caps accounting for nearly half of the market’s decline. Now, the changing contours of the market mean investors can capture a broader array of recovery candidates while incurring less benchmark risk.
